XPR6550 Programming Flaw?

[fchrist16]

Perhaps someone can help me with this one, details first.

Virtualbox on Mac OS X El Capitan Running Windows XP Pro SP3
OEM USB Programming Cable
MotoTRBO CPS R10 (Build 510)
XPR6550 (UHF Q and T Splits)

Here is the issue. For a long time now, I've been able to program the XPR6550 just fine this way, but I recently had to do a reboot of the whole machine, including Windows XP. EVERYTHING is setup exactly the same! Now for some STRANGE reason, the radio is showing up as a Network Adapter and not a Port Adapter. This makes it so that the radio can not be read or written too as CPS doesn't see the radio.

Has anyone run into this issue and have a fix?

Regards,

-Frank C.

[Bill_G]

I don't have a lot of Trbo experience, and I definitely have zero Mac experience, or experience programming from within a VM. But, I can say that every time I plug in a Trbo, Windows responds with a question about the "new network". After programming several radios, I'll have a clobber of these screens buried under the Trbo application that have to be closed.

[Wiregeek]

TRBO radios (and APX!) are network devices. Shut off Windows Firewall in your VM, and make sure the VM has all the appropriate permissions to IP over the USB. Also upgrade your CPS if you can, and if you can't try applying the MotoTRBO usb driver, which is available from either Moto online or the RVN5115 CD

[Wiregeek]

a followup - newer CPS will not install in XP

[fchrist16]

Thanks Bill_G!

Wiregeek, This was working last week but now isn't after I had to re-install EVERYTHING. The MotoTRBO R10 (Build 510) has worked fine on XP in the past. It is just after this re-boot things went wonky! I'll try to re-boot everything again and see what happens. I've had the R10 (Build 510) working just fine on XP for a while.

Regards,

-Frank C.

[escomm]

a followup - newer CPS will not install in XP

Sad but true. The cutoff is version 11 CPS. Motorola updated its dotnetfx framework reliance to 4.2 with this release, and M$ decided 4.2 cannot go on an XP computer. Win 7 or higher is now an absolute requirement

[fchrist16]

Okay a follow up to my Moto TRBO issue the other day. Got things running on my Windows 10 laptop. One radio reads/writes just fine, the other gives me this error via Windows.

"This device cannot start. (Code 10)"

Anyone seen this before?

Regards,

-Frank C.

[Gtaman]

Seems like a bad radio driver. Are they different bands?

[fchrist16]

Seems like a bad radio driver. Are they different bands?

Yes and no. They are Q and T splits but still UHF.

Regards,

-Frank C.

[wavetar]

I've seen something similar in the past, with a single mobile. In my case, although it would not show up as a network connection, it did show up in the device manager...can't remember if it showed an error or not. Anyway, I deleted it from the device manager, then unplugged and plugged back in, which then caused it to reload the driver and everything was then ok.

[fchrist16]

I've seen something similar in the past, with a single mobile. In my case, although it would not show up as a network connection, it did show up in the device manager...can't remember if it showed an error or not. Anyway, I deleted it from the device manager, then unplugged and plugged back in, which then caused it to reload the driver and everything was then ok.

I've had to do exactly this EVERY time I want/need to do a programming change. Sometimes 2 or 3 times before it takes. It gets rather irritating after a while.

Regards,

-Frank C.